Magmavision2000 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 I bought a game from steam (via steam key) and I tried to play it through the steam app and all I got was the steamui.dll error and it seems i can't play the game through the steam website. Is there another way of playing steam games or am i screwed? My OS is windows xp if you're wondering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 They dropped XP support last year... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Assuming the game is already installed, you can try running the game from the Steamapps folder. You will need to locate the folder on the hard drive where Steam is installed (say, C:\Program Files\Steam). Somewhere in there is the "Steamapps" folder. This usually houses the games you have downloaded. Look for the folder of your game (it may be under another sub-folder here called "Common"). Try to run your game from there. Many require Steam to run, but some will actually work fine, particularly old DOSbox-based stuff. It's not really recommended you use XP as a primary OS these days though. The security holes alone in that one and all its unsupported software is crazy, I bet. Then you run into things like this where you can't access your Steam library. Curious to know if you get it resolved though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Try downloading a patch for your game off the web... I remember doing that for UT3 so I wouldn't have to do that run it through Steam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magmavision2000 Posted July 9, 2019 Author Share Posted July 9, 2019 7 hours ago, Austin said: Assuming the game is already installed, you can try running the game from the Steamapps folder. You will need to locate the folder on the hard drive where Steam is installed (say, C:\Program Files\Steam). Somewhere in there is the "Steamapps" folder. This usually houses the games you have downloaded. Look for the folder of your game (it may be under another sub-folder here called "Common"). Try to run your game from there. Many require Steam to run, but some will actually work fine, particularly old DOSbox-based stuff. It's not really recommended you use XP as a primary OS these days though. The security holes alone in that one and all its unsupported software is crazy, I bet. Then you run into things like this where you can't access your Steam library. Curious to know if you get it resolved though. On my computer it appears that that the game is not installed. Looks like I'll either need to upgrade or "legally buy the game from the official website", I think I'll do the former. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 I would explain your problem to Steam customer service and request a refund 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 (edited) 9 hours ago, Forrest said: I would explain your problem to Steam customer service and request a refund You don't even need to explain it. Any game that you played less than two hours (I'm sure there's some exceptions) will be refunded. And since you can't even play the game it should be refunded. I would have checked to see if the game was on GOG... their non-DRM installers will work on XP as long as the game itself supports the OS. Edited July 10, 2019 by DragonGrafx-16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 On 7/9/2019 at 4:15 AM, Austin said: It's not really recommended you use XP as a primary OS these days though. The security holes alone in that one and all its unsupported software is crazy, I bet. It is perfectly fine to run Windows XP, as long as one takes reasonable precautions. My desktop PC currently runs Windows XP sp2, but it has not been online since dial-up was still viable. I primarily use it for writing, photo editing, and maintaining my website. All online activities (and game playing) are handled via a much newer platform. File transfer is handled via a flash drive. I have never used Steam (on any platform), so I have no opinion on its support for Windows XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magmavision2000 Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 On 7/9/2019 at 1:21 PM, Forrest said: I would explain your problem to Steam customer service and request a refund I don't think i would be able to get a refund since i bought the key on ebay. Plus I bought it for $1.19 so it's not like I wasted $60. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Time to upgrade your XP computer. Linux Mint is lovely. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agamon Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 15 hours ago, Magmavision2000 said: I don't think i would be able to get a refund since i bought the key on ebay. Plus I bought it for $1.19 so it's not like I wasted $60. Ah, from a key reseller. Don't worry, it probably won't work anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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